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Pride Month

The New York Public Library is celebrating Pride Month throughout June. Discover book recommendations, join us for free events, explore illuminating resources, and much more—for all ages. Happy Pride!

The Library After Hours: Pride

Fri, Jun 13 | 7:30 PM | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Join us for a special Pride edition of The Library After Hours! Enjoy live performances in the Rose Main Reading Room and special displays from the Library’s collections spotlighting queer lives in the workplace. Plus: dancing, games and puzzles, crafts, snacks, and more!

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'Super Gay Poems' with Stephanie Burt and Special Guests

Wed, Jun 18 | 7 PM | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Curated by Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems is a boundary-pushing anthology of 51 poems by LGBTQIA+ writers, tracing the evolution of queer poetry since the Stonewall Riots. Join Burt and featured poets Jee Leong Koh, Marisa Crawford, Marilyn Hacker, and others for a reading and conversation.

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Teen Banned Book Club with Trung Le Nguyen

Tue, Jun 3 | 3 PM ET | Online

Join Trung Le Nguyen, author of The Magic Fish, for a conversation about his book as part of NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club. Critically acclaimed and beautifully illustrated, The Magic Fish is about the ways that fairy tales can help us tell our own stories—especially one Vietnamese American boy trying to come out to his parents. Read with us, tune into the author talk, find our free downloadable discussion guide, and more! 

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Anti-Prom at NYPL 

May 30, Jun 20 | Various Locations

Calling all teens! Come hang out and dance the night away at the Library's free annual summer party, with music, snacks, art activities, and more! Anti-Prom welcomes and celebrates young people of all sexualities and gender identities and expressions. Join us in Staten Island in May and Manhattan in June!

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Free Events for All Ages

Explore our wide array of free events including author talks, book discussions, film screenings, crafts, and much more celebrating Pride Month.

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LGBTQ+ Titles Targeted for Censorship: Stand Against Book Banning

Stand with The New York Public Library to push back against the censorship of books with LGBTQ+ themes and characters. Explore this selection of some of the most challenged books, as documented by the American Library Association. 

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New Kids Books to Celebrate Pride Month

Celebrating unconditional love, acceptance, and self-expression, these newly published picture books, middle grade novels, and graphic novels are perfect to share with young readers during Pride Month and beyond. 

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More Recommended Reading

Explore our blog to find books and resources for all ages highlighting LGBTQ+ history and experiences. Hear from expert librarians and researchers, discover book recommendations from memoirs to poetry, and more.

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Reading with Pride: Resources for Educators

From NYPL's Center for Educators and Schools, discover an array of resources centered on historic and contemporary queer picture books. Explore scholarly essays on LGBTQ+ children’s literature, find developmentally appropriate book recommendations, explore ready-to-use teaching tools, and much more.

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Discover NYPL's Landmark LGBTQ+ Collections

NYPL has one of the world’s largest collections of LGBTQ+ history and materials regarding the social history of the AIDS crisis, many of which are available to view online. Explore our extensive collections, including academic and popular literature, rare books, little magazines, historic newspapers, at least 100,000 volumes, and over 300 archival collections—containing hundreds of thousands of letters, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and other items.

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Research Opportunity: Martin Duberman Fellowship

Deadline: May 31, 2025

The Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar program at The New York Public Library promotes excellence in LGBTQ+ studies by supporting scholars engaged in original, archivally-based research.

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Pride Pioneers: Explore NYPL’s LGBTQ+ Collections on Bloomberg Connects

Discover highlights from the Library’s extensive holdings documenting the gay rights movement and the experiences and accomplishments of queer and trans people in our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects. See photos of queer icons like Stormé DeLarverie and Audre Lorde and LGBTQ+ periodicals like The Radical Queen: Magazine of the Non-Man and Queen’s Quarterly on display in the Polonsky Exhibition of the Library’s Treasures.

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Robert Giard's Portraits of LGBTQ+ Writers and Their Works

The Library’s collections are home to over 200 portraits by Robert Giard, who began photographing LGBTQ+ writers in 1985. Many of his subjects’ works are available to borrow from the Library! Plus, Giard's notebooks are newly available for study.

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Four Powerful Online Conversations from the Schomburg Center to Watch During Pride Month

The Schomburg Center’s online public programs archive includes conversations about  LGBTQ+ champions of equality and social justice. Watch to learn more about the work of James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Lorraine Hansberry, and Pauli Murray.

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Queer Artists and Performance: A Dive Through the Library for the Performing Arts’ Archives

Throughout dance, music, and theater history, countless queer artists have left their mark on their fields and communities, and the Library for the Performing Arts’ collections contain many artifacts from their lives and work. Explore items from across our archives selected by expert curators!

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From NYPL's Digital Collections: Essential Resources About LGBTQ+ Activism and History

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Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971

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When you donate to NYPL’s LGBTQ Initiative, you provide critical funds to help the Library build, preserve, and increase access to its LGBTQ+ collections not only for New Yorkers, but for people across the country and around the world.

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Multilingual Resources

The New York Public Library is here for everyone! At our 92 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, we welcome speakers and readers of a wide range of languages. NYPL is committed to helping everyone navigate our free services and resources: get a library card, learn about Library offerings, search the catalog, and more in world languages.

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